Blizzard to start RMAH Stresstest

As we reported earlier 100k beta invites were sent out to North America two weeks ago and with Battle.net Balance all set up and done for North America last week, it seems that Blizzard is taking the stresstests to a new level. Starting this week they will put a lot of stress on the RMAH to see if it holds up under the pressure.

We’ll be placing extra strain on the beta auction house every day this week from 10:00 a.m. PST until approximately 12:00 p.m. PST, to put the system through its paces. During this time there may be interruptions or loss in an ability to use the auction house. We’ll provide updates if there’s any extended downtime experienced or expected.

I would suggest that you don’t use the RMAH during the stresstest just in case something goes wrong and you lose some of your Bobby Bucks and or items.

TBH they really should have lvl range and a collection of drop down boxes, IE arrange by Str high to low VIT high to low etc. So you get items with highest STR in the level range first then if more than one item has the same STR value they are arranged by VIT etc.

“of the Lion”, “of the Eel”. Legendary and set items have specific names, as do crafting components, gems, and consumables. As it stands, the AH doesn’t function. The interface is the most awful I’ve ever seen in an online auction house.

No, I haven’t seen ToR’s auction house. I did beta test but I don’t think I ever got around to it. I don’t see how anything can be worse, in terms of functionality, than D3’s. Because it doesn’t function or do anything you need it to do. Even the manual player-ran auctions in Ultima Online were better.

I do think the interface art looks very nice. It just doesn’t work beneath the buttons.

It seems Blizzard will be stress testing the RMAH with their own systems, and probably flooding the RMAH with requests for searches, purchases, etc. to simulate potential release day traffic. Well, that’s what I gather from the Blue’s post since they didn’t say “Beta testers will be stress testing the RMAH, so please login” or the like.

At any rate, it seems the RMAH has reached a state nearing completion while the rune and skill system are still up in the air (of course they have been pretty much since day one). My guess is they delayed release for RMAH and BNet Balance development, hence the “since we have more time” message we seem to get from the dev team. They used the extra time a bit loosely, and are now in over their heads. Atleast they’ll be jumping big RMAH hurdle. Sign of release!

Yeah, they’re super loose, this dev team. Which is why this game has taken 10 years to make.

However, skill and rune systems are NOT up in the air. They are probably done and dusted with. Bashiok said that well be getting info on them real soon. By this weekend, if some if his cryptic tweets are to be believed.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the next update from J would be like “It’s all good folks, release is in two weeks…we cut the rune system.”

I would be happy with that. Fuck the runes fuck the AH fuck everything. Let us run the game to Inferno, spend a few months there looking for items, pvp a bit and see if we can kill the last boss naked.

Just FYI, this team hasn’t been developing D3 for 10 years, Blizz North was making D3 before they shut down, so it’s more like 5 years that they have been developing the game, it’s not THAT long when you want to make a quality game ( Naughty Dog has been developing their newest title for 5 years before they announced it a few months ago ). Just relax, we’ll get it sooner or later.

How about an Auction House Interface that doesn’t look like it was put together in 30 minutes? The first time I used the AH and I thought to myself “with all the money and time they got, this is what they came up with?”.

No… your post is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Blizzard is warning of an INTERNAL stress test – a simulation that will slam the AH blades with thousands of auctions, bids, and sales per minute. The RISK is that John Q. Betatester posts items at the same time and, as Kaydee warns, loses their Bobby bucks in a faulty transaction. The AH stress test that Blizz is warning about will occur even if zero beta testers post an item.

I’m not sure how they went from the WoW auction house to this. The WoW auction house has been battle tested for (I think) 7 years and has served as platform to move billions of sets of gear, pets, mounts, crafting items, etc… Honestly, every time I go in the D3 AH I really just want to click the back button… it makes me want to run away IMMEDIATELY.

My capcha was “murphy’s law”… could it have known I was talking about the AH?

The more I dig & read into RMAH-issues, it feels like this function of D3 was one of the latest parts they started working on & totally miss judged the time it would take to develop it & make it work flawlessly. (Hence the continuous delays of release which give them at the same time more time to work on the skill & rune system)

Blizzard sure got in over their heads with this one. Just to make a small comparison: Mass Effect 1 came out in 2008. Next month ME3 is coming out. ME games are a lot more complex and bigger then D3.

Blizz announced D3 in 2008, almost 4 years later, still no release date and tons of bugs in the first part of act one.

Hah, oh the young, the naive, who think that D3 will have anything resembling balance at all upon release.

What’s going on here, since I purposely did not mention D3’s complexity as a comparison to that of ME3, is people who simply want an outlet to attack a popular game they don’t like. I appreciate you taking the bait and proving my point. My point is that your only point is “LOL I DUN LIEK DAT GAEM” which is, like, 90% of all of the worthless posts on gaming sites and boards across the entire world.

You sir are a plain Troll. Where did I state that I dont like ME games or ME3?? I played and finished ME2 and quite liked it. That wont stop me from pointing out stupidity on these here forums. The only thing you have proven is that you have no judgement and common sense when it comes to this hobby.

I’d be interested in knowing just how many “Diablo only” folks are in the beta, compared to those who threw money at WoW or SC2. I know it doesn’t do me much good to bitch, but I am disappointed to not be in this beta yet.